Top Management

Dato’ Ir. Ahmad ‘Asri Abdul Hamid has been appointed as the Chief Executive of the Construction Industry Development Board Malaysia (CIDB) on 1st March 2016.

He formerly held the post of Senior General Manager of the Management Sector in CIDB, and has 16 years experience in the organisation under various capacities, including heading the Levy Divison, Corporate Division and the Development Sector.

Dato’ Ir. Ahmad ‘Asri has been in public service for more than 32 years, including as a mechanical engineer in the Public Works Department for 13 years. He has also served as the President for the Professional Services Development Corporation (PSDC) for 3 years, where he was responsible for developing the capability and capacity of the professional services sector in facing with the challenges of liberalisation.

Sr. Sariah Abd. Karib is the Senior General Manager heading the Policy and Corporate Sector of the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) Malaysia.

She has over 34 years experience in the construction industry, 13 years of which had been in the Public Works Department rendering services on construction projects; cost control & planning; tender & contract administration; and management and R&D in the quantity surveying services.

Sr. Sariah is one of the pioneers of CIDB having been involved in the setting up of CIDB from its inception in the year 1995. She has headed various Divisions in CIDB and has developed numerous transformational programs for the development of construction industry including the enactment of Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act, establishment of Construction Courts, construction data and information management, and the implementation of Construction Industry Transformation Program (2016-2020). She has previously been the lead negotiator for the construction service sector under AFAS and WTO, and also represented construction sector in the earlier signed FTAS.

Datuk Ir Elias Ismail joined CIDB in 1998 and he currently heads the Technology Development Sector of CIDB Malaysia as the Senior General Manager. He is responsible for the development, promotion and utilization of construction technologies that can achieve higher standards of quality, productivity, safety and professionalism in the construction industry, instituting more environmentally sustainable practices, reducing reliance on low skilled foreign labour and increasing the industry’s global competitiveness.

Before that he headed the Management Sector, CIDB Malaysia where he was responsible for the Strategic Management, Human Resource, Information Mgt, Financial and Asset Mgt of CIDB. At industry and national level, he’s very actively involved with activities of standardization for the construction industry through Standards Malaysia. Chairman, Industry Standards Committee on Building & Civil Engineering (ISC ‘D’), Jab Standards Malaysia, Member of Engineering Accreditation Council, Board of Engineers Malaysia, Professional Competency Examination Committee, Board of Engineers, Standards Development Agency SDA Review Panel, Jabatan Standards Malaysia. He is also involved in the academic Advisory Panel of Engineering Faculty of various universities (UiTM, USM, UKM, Universiti Teknologi Petronas).

Mr. Megat Kamil Azmi b. Megat Rus Kamarani has served 27 years in the civil service as a Civil Engineer with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of North Carolina, U.S.A.

He is responsible for enforcing the Act 520 on the registration of contractors' responsibilities, registration & accreditation of construction personnel, levy and quality control of building materials involving 73,000 contractors, 1.2 million construction personnel, 8,000 construction projects valued at RM 130 - RM 170 billion and 7,000 - 9,000 imported building materials per year.

He is the Senior General Manager of the Operations Sector from 2012 until now.He started his duties at CIDB in 1995, leading the Construction Technology Division and Contractors and Personnel Development Sector. In addition he is also involved in ISO and APEC technical committees internationally as well as at various technical committees at SIRIM and Department of Standards Malaysia. He also presented various papers at forums and international and local forums and seminars.

He was also appointed to sit for various advisory panels at the Human Resources Camp, Youth and Sports Camp, Polytechnics, CIAST, Universiti Sains Malaysia, University of Malaya, International Islamic University and Construction Labor Exchange Berhad. He was also appointed as the Board of Directors of CIDB Holdings, the Malaysian Build Academy, the International Diving Academy and the CIDB E-Construct Services.